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Grow your own: Swiss Chard

3rd March 2023 Shannon Butcher Fruit & Veg Growing Guides

Swiss Chard is worth growing just for its decorative leaves and stems alone. However, the stems and the leaves also make a tasty alternative to spinach. Swiss chard is a crop for autumn, winter and spring harvests at a time when there is little else around. It grows in a clump about 45cm (11⁄2ft) high and wide. Varieties ‘Bright Lights’A…

Grow your own: Turnips & Swede

3rd March 2023 Web Editor Fruit & Veg Growing Guides

Home-grown turnips are the best to eat. They can be harvested about golf ball size and eaten raw in salads, rather like radishes, or cooked in many ways. They are also fast to mature and have a long sowing season. Their leaves can be harvested in spring as an alternative to spinach. Grown in the same way, swedes are a…

Grow your own: Tomatoes

3rd March 2023 Web Editor Fruit & Veg Growing Guides

With so many varieties and the versatility to grow in greenhouses, outside, or even in hanging baskets, when you grow your own tomatoes, there’s a world of possibilities. There are hundreds of tomato varieties ranging from the tiny cherry tomatoes to the huge beefsteak types and all sizes in between. Tomatoes are great value for money because most home-grown fruit…

VIDEO: Unboxing the NEW How to Grow Month By Month

21st January 2022 Ben Stockdale News, Video

Today we’re unboxing the first in the series of the new How To guides from Kitchen Garden Magazine! ‘How to’… Grow month by month takes you through all the essential tasks to do on your veg patch or in your greenhouse throughout the year. It offers great advice and inspiration to the many who are new to gardening following the…